Like they say, when you are hot, you are hot. Jason Ong, Singapore champion trainer in 2023 and runaway leader in the new season, just keeps boiling over.
Sure, it helps when you have a yard that is brimming with talent.
And Ong does seem to have just that. Winners have been coming in their numbers.
Three on a "normal" day. Four when he revs things up and five a day when he decides to turn the screws.
Okay. So, the last meeting on Feb 24 did not pan out as expected for Ong, his team and his throng of followers.
He had sent out a fistful of runners but came away with just one victory - appropriately named Wins One.
This was after he sent out two five-timers at the preceding two meetings.
Well, if you think he has run out of magic dust, you are only kidding yourself.
Ong is going to bounce back and in a big way. He has entered 22 runners for the meeting coming up on March 2.
They are spread over 10 of the 11 races for the day and, by his lofty standards, he must be looking at putting together a bumper haul.
As a sneak preview or, as they say in the movies, a "coming attraction", Ong sent some members of his team for a spin on the training track and they came away looking real good.
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